IT was in the ‘works hotel’ of a mighty iron and steelworks in a district where Czechs, Germans, and Poles were living together in close community. My host, a prominent engineer of the steelworks, ...

PRAGUE – The Iron Curtain was traced by an electrified barbed-wire fence that isolated the communist world from the West. It was an impenetrable Cold War barrier — and for some inhabitants of the ...

In the wake of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles had ceded territory called the Sudetenland, a region where German speakers predominated, to the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia. German ...

Students of national psychology know how much the fairy tales of each nation are the expression of national psychology, and to what extent they are an expression of fear and desire. It seems that the ...

Thousands of Czechoslovakians last week went to bed with gas masks at their bedsides. By law, every Czech citizen in cities must possess a gas mask before the end of June, and last week, reported ...